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THE CANADIAN H0ETICULTUKI8T. 



THE PEWAUKEE APPLE— SOME 

 OOREEOTIONS. 



I always look over the pages of the 

 Horticulturist with much interest. In 

 looking over the August Number just 

 at hand, I have stopped to read and re- 

 read the funny note of Mr. Simon Hoy, 

 under the heading " Pewaukee Apple." 

 At first I thought it a burlesque on the 

 writings of sidewalk horticulturists, but 

 on second reading he seems really in 

 earnest. Permit me to correct some of 

 his statements. 



1. What we know as the Siberian 

 crab is not indigenous to Kussia in 

 Europe. 



2. The indigenous crab of Central 

 Europe is a forest tree of considerable 

 size, and on the timber borders where 

 it spreads out apple tree fashion, it 

 produces great crops of true winter 

 apples of much better quality for cul- 

 inary use than our native wild crab. 



3. There is no evidence that the 

 Borovinca tribe of the aj^ple to which 

 the Duchess belongs sprang from the 

 native crab of Russia or of Siberia, but 

 there is much evidence favoring the 

 idea that it was introduced from the 

 north-west Provinces of China. 



4. If Mr. Roy will visit Saratov on 

 the Volga this fall, he may see orchards 

 containing from ten to twenty thousand 

 trees, nearly all of which produce real 

 Simon pure winter apples, which are 

 sent in immense quantities to Moscow 

 on the north-west, and to Perm and 

 other points on the north-east. 



5. The summer heat over a large 

 portion of the black soil section of Cen- 

 tral Russia is high enough, and the 

 season long enough, to ripen dent corn, 

 melons and tomatoes. 



6. Our common winter apples, which 

 have proven tender over a large part of 

 the west and north, did not originate 

 from an Asiatic crab, but from the in- 

 digenous wild crab of west Europe. 



7. Mr. G. P. Peffer, the originator 

 of the Pewaukee apple, is one of the 

 most careful and truthful of our western 

 horticulturists, and his statements as to 

 the origin of the Pewaukee, Clark's 

 orange, etc., may be safely taken with- 

 out discount. J. L. B. 



NEW EOSES. 



Of the new roses which have been 

 sent out the past two or three seasons 

 there are a few which created such a 

 furore on their appearance, or were 

 heralded by such a special flourish of 

 trumpets, that their names are now 

 household words among all who take 

 an interest in roses, even including 

 those who cannot count these famous 

 plants among their possessions, or where 

 the famed beauty of their blooms has 

 never yet been seen. 



As I have now bloomed (with one 

 or two exceptions) all mentioned below, 

 (comprising all the most noted of newly 

 introduced roses), and have also seen 

 most of them in bloom in other places, 

 and under other conditions, and have 

 thus gained a little practical experience 

 on the matter of w^iich I speak, I 

 thought perhaps it would not be out of 

 place to say a few words to rose-lovers 

 on this head through the columns of 

 the Horticulturist. 



I know that descriptions of all these 

 roses can be found in the leading rose- 

 growers' catalogues, but the descrip- 

 tions are necessarily so brief that there 

 is no room for faults, and there appears 

 often to be such a cheerful and com- 

 mendable desire to look on the best 

 side of things that we sometimes fail 

 to get a correct estimate from this 

 source alone. 



White Baroness, introduced to the 

 rose-world three or four years ago by 

 Paul is a rose with the same stiff grow- 

 ing habit as Baroness Rothschild. It 

 is a slow, poor grower, and like most 



